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Word: picks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lamont said although "in ten years or less there will be a much larger pool of women and minority candidates to pick from," it is now difficult to find such candidates with strong financial backgrounds...

Author: By Michael T. Crehan, | Title: Nominations For Overseer Break Trend | 2/4/1978 | See Source »

Harvard's main hopes lie in the fourth-and fifth-place categories, where Stowell says the team must "peck away at them." Triple-jumper Bruce Brooks and high-jumper Mike Young are the prime candidates to pick up these "unexpected" points that might swing the meet in the Crimson's favor, with Chris Queen and Tom DiBenedetto also challenging in the shot...

Author: By Theodore S. Chandler, | Title: Trackmen Vie for Greater Boston Title | 2/3/1978 | See Source »

...Hands that picked cotton in 1966 did pick the President in 1976, and could very well be the difference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Wooing the Black Vote | 1/30/1978 | See Source »

...slush and water created a nuisance for pedestrians. One sophomore entering the Yard through a flooded archway on Massachusetts Avenue said, "You really have to pick and choose where you walk...

Author: By Marin J. Strmecki, | Title: Rain Causes Floods, Wet Feet | 1/27/1978 | See Source »

...addition, current regulations direct the House Committees to choose 11 people at random to form a selection board, which decides whether to pick candidates by ballot, lot, or an "alternative procedure." Then, CRR representatives are selected from the Houses' candidates by lot. Similar procedures apply to the freshman class and GSAS. If such a selection procedure provides us with a fairminded, competent, interested representatives, we will have only Lady Luck to thank. The reform proposals make no change in this procedure...

Author: By William A. Schwartz, | Title: Continuing Revolution: A Critical View of the CRR Reforms | 1/18/1978 | See Source »

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